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Twitter adds option to mute users

Twitter is rolling out a new Mute feature that lets users control the type of updates moving through their primary feed. According to an explanation of the feature on Twitter's blog, when a user is muted,

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Twitter adds option to mute users

Brett Molina, USA Today
8:57 a.m. CDT May 13, 2014

(FILES) File photo dated September 11, 2013 shows the logo of the social networking website 'Twitter' displayed on a computer screen in London. The San Francisco company Twitter announced on September 12, 2013, in a tweet, that it has submitted papers for a stock offering, the most hotly anticipated in the tech sector since Facebook's last year. "We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale," the company tweeted. Talk of an initial public offering (IPO) has circulated about Twitter for some time, and the Wall Street Journal estimated the company founded in 2006 is worth some $10 billion. Twitter has become one of the fastest-growing and most influential social media services, used widely by celebrities, journalists, politicians and others. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL
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Twitter is rolling out a new Mute feature that lets users control the type of updates moving through their primary feed.

According to an explanation of the feature on Twitter's blog, when a user is muted, their activity no longer appears on your main feed. The user can still respond to you via replies, or favorite your tweets, but their tweets and retweets will be removed from your view.

Mute is a toned-down version of Twitter's block function, which prevents a user from following you or viewing their replies in the Mentions section.

The feature will roll out to all users in the coming weeks, says Twitter.